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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

What if your worst mistake was really the best choice?

New book by Beth K.
Vogt explores how God’s

best often comes disguised as a second chance

Marriage
is serious business — both for the couple tying the knot and for wedding
vendors, with the average cost of an American wedding topping $25,000. As
budgets get stretched, so can fraying nerves and already-taut emotions, as
captured in
Beth K. Vogt’s new Destination Wedding series.

In the first novel in the series, Crazy
Little Thing Called Love(Howard Books/June
30, 2015/ISBN: 978-1476789781/$14.99), paramedic Vanessa Hollister
thinks she has moved beyond the pain of her first marriage — a “what-were-you-thinking”
teenage elopement — and is planning an elegant destination wedding in Destin, Fla.,
with her new fiancé. Her dream of an idyllic beach wedding is disrupted, though,
with the sudden reappearance of her first husband.

Storm chaser Logan Hollister is used to taking risks, but a reckless decision
during the last tornado season has him questioning his career’s future. Coming
face-to-face with his ex-wife eight years after their divorce compels him to
confront his greatest regret: losing Vanessa.

When a powerful hurricane throws
Vanessa and Logan together, the pair battles unexpected renewed feelings for
each other, and the two are left with a choice: Should they accept, once and
for all, their teenage marital mistake? Or is God offering them a second chance
at happily ever after?

Vogt’s Destination Wedding series will
explore the power of love and the possible mishaps and missteps that happen on
a couple’s journey down the aisle. Vogt says she was ready to write something a
little different. “So often in
contemporary romance stories, the wedding comes at the end of the novel — often
as an epilogue,” Vogt points out. “In this series, the wedding is a main plot
point. And travel — who doesn’t love to read about new travel destinations?”
Fans of Vogt are in for an extra treat; Vogt is releasing an e-short, Can’t Buy Me Love, on May 5, 2015 in
which chic bride-to-be Bellamy plans the Manhattan wedding of her dreams.

Vogt’s writing process always starts
with a story question. For Crazy Little
Thing Called Love, her question was: Is it possible what you thought was
your biggest mistake was actually the right choice? “God’s best often waits
behind the doors marked ‘never,’” Vogt muses. “Crazy Little Thing Called Love delves into the choices we make and
asks, if we are given a second chance at love, should we take it?” Vogt says
she hope readers will close the covers of Crazy
Little Thing Called Love understanding that while a second chance in life
or love might not be an automatic affirmation from God, it should be approached
prayerfully and counted as a treasured opportunity.

Advance
Praise

“Take the safe way or risk it all for love? In Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Beth
Vogt takes her characters (and readers) on a journey where the choice must be
made . . . readers will be reminded that God can turn our old mistakes into a
beautiful present."

~ Cara Putman, award-winning author of Shadowed by Grace

“Crazy Little Thing Called Love is another winner! I truly love
Beth K. Vogt’s voice, and the characters she has created here are authentically
honest. . . . A wonderful story with a heartfelt message of forgiveness and
redemption.”

~
Catherine West, award-winning author of Yesterday’s
Tomorrow

“Second chances at love, storm-chasing danger, and a
destination wedding? I’m in! Beth K. Vogt’s newest book, Crazy Little
Thing Called Love, hits all the right notes, touching on more serious
subject matter without losing any of Beth’s signature charm. This is sure to be
a favorite addition to any fan’s Christian romance library.”

~ Carla Laureano, RITA® award-winning
author of Five Days in Skye and London Tides

About the Author

Beth
K. Vogt is a non-fiction author who said she’d never write fiction, the wife of
an Air Force physician who said she’d never marry anyone in the military and a mom
of four who said she’d never have kids. Vogt believes God’s best often waits
behind the doors marked “never.”

A
2014 Carol Award finalist, Vogt enjoys writing contemporary romance fiction because
she believes there’s more to “happily-ever-after” than the fairy tales tell us.
Her 2014 novel, Somebody Like You,
was one of Publisher’s Weekly’s Best
Books of 2014. In 2015, Vogt introduces a four-part Destination Wedding series
with the eBook, Can’t Buy Me Love,
and her new novel, Crazy Little Thing
Called Love.

A
magazine writer and former editor of the MOPS International magazine, Connections, Vogt is a part of the
leadership team for the writing community My Book Therapy. She lives in Colorado with
her husband, Rob, and their youngest daughter.

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